[Usefulness of a multidisciplinary gerontological assessment tool in the allocation of social-health resources].
OBJECTIVE
To analyse the level and characteristics of dependency, and the criteria for prioritizing and allocating resources for people requiring long-stay social-health resources, temporary admission or alternative resources.


METHODS
Descriptive cross-sectional study.


METHODS
Social-health care programme of the Costa de Ponent health region.


METHODS
232 patients evaluated by the social-health interdisciplinary mixed committees in the Anoia, L'Hospitalet and Centre-North Baix Llobregat and Fontsanta sectors during the first half of 1996.


RESULTS
A triple-assessment instrument (medical, nursing and social) was worked out, with homogeneous weighting between the three. The Barthel, OARS, Performance Status and Folstein's Minimental indexes were used; and the relationship between the scores on each one of them, the final score and the allocation of social-health resources were established.


CONCLUSIONS
This instrument enables long-stay admission requests or social-health short-term admission to be classified and prioritized, so improving equality in access to this resource.
García Ameijeiras
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Región Sanitaria Costa de Ponent, Servei Català de la Salut, Barcelona.
Roigé Cortadelles
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Elías Aldosa
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Viñas Folch
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D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D016001:Confidence Intervals; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D015577:Geriatric Assessment; D015276:Health Care Rationing; D006699:Home Care Services; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011320:Primary Health Care; D013030:Spain
Utilidad de un instrumento de valoración gerontológica multidisciplinar en la asignación de recursos sociosanitarios.